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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.Dodie Smith
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I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.Dodie Smith
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.Dodie Smith
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Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.Dodie Smith
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Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but true happiness.Dodie Smith
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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.Dodie Smith
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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.Dodie Smith
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I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.Dodie Smith
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Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.Dodie Smith
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I like seeing people when they can't see me.Dodie Smith
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My God - it's a green child! " said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?Dodie Smith
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Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did — flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.Dodie Smith
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He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside – why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?" He sounded faintly sad. Perhaps he finds beauty saddening – I do myself sometimes. Once when I was quite little I asked father why this was and he explained that it was due to our knowledge of beauty's evanescence, which reminds us that we ourselves shall die. Then he said I was probably too young to understand him; but I understood perfectly. .Dodie Smith
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...he talked quite naturally while we ate – about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one has the desire to describe beauty." Perhaps it's an attempt to possess it, " I said." Or be possessed by it; perhaps that's the same thing, really. I suppose it's the complete identification with beauty one's seeking." The mist grew brighter and brighter.Dodie Smith
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In addition, I think religion has a chance of a look-in whenever the mind craves solace in music or poetry-- in any form of art at all. Personally, I think it is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communication all the other arts attempt.Dodie Smith
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When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.Dodie Smith
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.Dodie Smith
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But some characters in books are really real-- Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.Dodie Smith
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There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.Dodie Smith
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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.Dodie Smith